University of Miami professor brings the experience of attending the World Press Photo Awards to Web. This site allows viewers to not only see the winning photos but to listen to the photographer tell the story behind the picture.

This powerful international multimedia reporting project by emerging journalists documents the struggles of Africans to cope with water shortages and changing landscape. Packages are distributed through mainstream and alternative media. Storytelling is accompanied with behind-the-scenes blogs. Supported by Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Living to the End is a project that, for the first time, gave a close-up view of how Oregon's unique assisted suicide law works. In a series of online video diaries, Lovelle Svart, an Oregonian dying of terminal cancer, spoke directly to readers and online viewers, telling them about the tasks of her days, her thoughts, her feelings, her fears of dying. And about a big decision that lay before her: whether to use Oregon's Death With Dignity Act to hasten her death. Readers/viewers were able to comment online and shared and contributed to the conversation about this controversial topic.

A 24-part serial true-crime novel, television documentary and multimedia Web package about a serial killer who victimized the Hispanic community of Fort Worth. The novel stuck to journalistic standards, but each part had a cliffhanger ending to keep readers coming back to the Star-Telegram for weeks. On the Web, users could examine documents, use interactive graphics, hear audio and video interviews and chat with the authors. Response was astoundingly positive, including from surviving victims.

The Pulitzer Center led a multi-platform, highly collaborative in-depth reporting project on HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean. The project brought together old and new media and reached out into both schools and the blogosphere to foster citizen engagement.

"When disaster strikes or horrible events unfold, these are opportunities to effect change." CNN.com's Impact Your World reports on crises and tragedies around the world and provides links to relevant reputable charities so that readers can help. Links are to the highest rated charities by Charity Navigator, an independent non-profit that evaluates charity groups. A story about a 5-year-old Iraqi boy who was doused in gas and burned by unknown masked men has spurred 13,000 donations totaling more than $800,000 to Children's Burn Foundation.

Current TV's citizen journalism program gathers information from Current's social networking site, Current.com, to build stories that then go on Current TV and the Web site. Current uses an online assignment board - usually full of ideas suggested by users - to post story ideas and keep everyone on the same page. Users can then contribute with something as basic as tips or written first-hand experiences, or as complex as eye-witness video. This information and video is vetted and put together into one video news feature rather than posted separately like many other CitMedia sites.

The FirstPerson collection showcases citizen reporters, photojournalists and video journalists. The site allows users to participate in discussions surrounding the news through message boards, live votes and predictions, blog comments, and links to a whole community news site, Newsvine.com. The project is a cooperative citizen journalism effort between NBC News and msnbc.com. It solicits breaking news reports from users and funnels those reports to the news desks of the television network and Web site.

This public radio science and environmental program in San Francisco seeks to attract a new and younger audience by hosting its audio and video features for easy playback on the KQED site and making it easy for users to embed features on other sites with a simple code cut-and-paste. In the program's first season, 18 percent of QUEST's audience came from online views and listens, but that number has ballooned to 40 percent (or 755,000 views and listens) in season two.

This service from AP recognizes where your Web-enabled cell phone is in the world and gives you the latest news relevant to that area. The content is provided by local newspapers as well as the AP wire. Over 100 news publishers are currently on board and providing content.

A team of journalism graduate students, working under the direction of Associate Professor Rich Gordon, set out to explore "locative storytelling" - seeking to understand how journalists might use location-based technologies (such as GPS-enabled devices, mobile phones and interactive maps) to tell richer, more compelling stories. The most novel result of the students' work was a series of three stories about Chicago's 2016 Olympic bid. The stories included narrated Web slideshows, downloadable audio tours and GPS-triggered multimedia.

For the Back-of-the-Envelope Bush Library Design Contest, The Chronicle of Higher Education asked its readers to sketch out their visions for the Bush Library with the main rule being that the designs were submitted on a size-10 envelope. The contest generated more buzz and Web hits than anything the Chronicle has done in recent history.